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Urban Patterns

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Annexation   show
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show Divides urban areas (contain about 5000 residents and corresponds where possible neighborhood boundaries)  
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show Explains the distribution of different social groups within urban cities (a city grows outward a central ring in a series of concentric rings)  
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show Two adjacent MSAs with overlapping commuting patterns are combined into CMSA  
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show A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the various local governments in the region  
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density gradient   show
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edge city   show
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show This is known as the process of subdivision of homes and occupancy by successive waves of lower- income people  
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gentrification   show
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greenbelt   show
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show A method of measuring the functional area of a city (MSA)  
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multiple nuclei model   show
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peripheral model   show
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primary metropolitan statistical area   show
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show Reserved for low-income households who must pay 30% of their income for rent. A housing authority establishes the building  
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show Drawing lines on a map to identify areas in which they (banks) will refuse to loan money  
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rush hour   show
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sector model   show
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show Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland  
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show Is the progressive spread of development over the landscape  
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show is made by a group of people who move together onto land outside the city that is owned by private individual/government  
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show Inner-city residents frequently are referred to as a permanent underclass because they are trapped in an unending cycle of economic and social problems  
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show The process by which the population of cities grows (two dimensions: an increase in the number of people and an increase of percentage of people)  
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urbanized area   show
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show encouraged spatial separation  
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show As early as 1900, real estate agents and developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their homes and businesses at a loss by stoking fears that their neighborhoods were being overtaken by black people/ other races.  
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show A theory formulated by Walter Christler that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of competitive supply of goods and services  
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Beaux Art   show
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Exurbanite   show
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Gateway Cities   show
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Ghettoization   show
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show The trend of middle- and upper-income  
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show The market area surrounding an urban center, which that and urban center serves.  
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action space   show
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Central Business district   show
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show Movement in environmental design that drew directly from the beaux arts school. Created urban spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride  
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Forward Capital   show
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show The trend of middle and upper income americans moving into the city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low- income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods.  
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nodes   show
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show Rule that states that the population of any given town should be inversely proportional to its rank in the country’s hierarchy when the distribution of cities according to their sizes follows a certain pattern.  
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